NICE TO MEET YOU, DEAR CREATIVE MIND.

I’m Pascale, your guide on the rebellious path of creative living.

Pascale Côté, Creativity Guide & Therapeutic Arts Practitioner

WHo i am

I’m an artist, creativity guide & therapeutic arts practitioner.

I work where opposites meet. At the core of my own art is a fascination with polarity: the tension between creation and destruction, order and chaos, immanence and transcendence. As a creativity guide, I hold space for you to sit with your own contradictions, to soften the inner wars that keep you stuck, and to begin integrating the parts of yourself that feel at odds. I help you enter in a self-partnership that grows your capacity to navigate uncertainty, complexity, and the liminal spaces where truly transformative creativity happens.

whAT I DO

I help creative minds map their way out of the burnout ⇆ stagnation vortex.

Our most profound art emerges when we stay with the question long enough to hear what it’s really asking. I hold space for the hard work of listening to those deeper truths. Together, we step into creative liberation: a space for brave creatives who are ready to stop fighting against their nature and start creating from it. We’ll explore not just what you want to create, but also what gets in the way: the patterns, beliefs, and stories that may be holding you back. Our mission is to reconnect you with your creative core, and help you create from it with coherence and trust.

WHY I DO IT

Grounded creative minds imagine & create a kinder future.

I am devoted to our personal, collective and creative liberation. I believe that when we are grounded in our creative flow, we become catalysts for change, both within ourselves and in the world around us. Your perspectives bring contrast, depth, texture, & colour to the world. Your voice, perspective and art is needed more than ever. I’m devoted to creating spaces where this kind of honest, courageous, and transformative creativity can take root.

Still curious?

I exist in this weird world as a neurocomplex, queer, quietly rebellious, multi-hyphenate creative and all-around unconventional human being. In this season of my creative life, I’m relearning ceramics and writing a book about the process of untaming and rewilding ourselves: a spellbook that guides us in bending, breaking, and blooming beyond the lines we’ve inherited. I also love painting visual remedies to soften the inner wars we all carry. I speak French, English, Spanish, and I’m learning Portuguese and Arabic. I’m originally from Montreal, Canada, and I moved to Portugal in March 2025. If you know me personally, my life is pretty weird. If you really really know me, my life is a sitcom.

DECODE ME ;)

Taurus Sun | Scorpio Moon | Gemini Rising | Enneagram 4 | INFJ

I’m not attached to perfect ‘consistency.’ What I ask of myself instead is devotion, and it always takes on a slightly different form. This season, I am devoting myself to every week:

  • Writing: a 90-minute session every Wednesday and Friday.

  • Ceramics: showing up to my Thursday morning pottery class.

  • Painting: spending at least 1h at my painting altar on Thursday

  • Mythology studies: listening to a tale as I paint, and let the symbolism inform both my writing and painting explorations.

Professional Studies & Personal Explorations

  • Advanced Creativity Coaching, Eric Maisel

  • Tarot & Psyche, Jungarchademy

  • Myths & The Creative Life, Maria Souza

  • Conscious Living Programme, Applied Jung

  • Trauma-informed coaching and counseling, Trey Malicoat

  • Unleashed Life Coaching, Christine Hassler

  • Energy Healing Training, Inge Broer

  • Reiki Level I, The Luminaries

  • Bachelor of Arts, Université du Québec à Montréal

Current and upcoming studies (2025/2026)

  • Somatic Parts Work Level 1, Frances D. Booth

  • The Alchemical Imagination, Emerald School

  • The Mythic Body Course, Josh Schrei

  • Foundation Course in Art Therapy, Metafora

My worldview and approach is informed by:

  • Creativity, imagination, and myth as pathways to self-discovery, growth, and transformation.

  • Evolutionary astrology, archetypal tarot, and cyclical living as tools for making sense of both inner and outer worlds

  • Paganism and animism perspectives that root spirituality in the everyday

  • Somatic practices that cultivate embodiment, and emotional resilience.

  • Queerness, multilingual expression, and a multilayered identity that reveal the beauty of holding many truths at once.

  • The lived experience of neurodivergence, anxiety, depression, which teach me about resilience, vulnerability, and the power of gentleness.

  • Celtic lineages and mythic traditions that keep me tethered to story, land, and ancestral echoes.

  • My own creative practice and navigating the maze of my creative mind.

ART THAT HAS shaped My work

Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
The Creative Fire by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz
The Red Book by Carl Jung
If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
Be Here Now by Ram Dass 
Art Is a Way of Knowing by Pat B. Allen
Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown 
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 
Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas 
The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie